After reading Ernest Hemingway's well-known novel The Sun Also Rises, print these study questions for your class. There are 10 questions listed, and some require more than just basic recall. There are compare and contrast questions and...

What is a white elephant, and what does it have to do with Ernest Hemingway? Study "Hills Like White Elephants" in-depth by following the procedures outlined in this lesson, the fifth in a series of fourteen. Learners start the day with...

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, high schoolers respond to 15 multiple choice questions based on The Sun Also Rises. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Immersed in Hemingway's detailed descriptions? The Old Man and the Sea is short but powerful, just like this quiz. Ten multiple-choice questions check what you remember about the story.

Expand your pupils' understanding of the short story genre with a study of John Updike and his story "A&P." This instructional activity, the fourth in a series of fourteen, invites learners to examine literary terms and read and...

Continue your study of the short story with the next lesson in this fourteen-lesson series. After wrapping up a study of "Hills Like White Elephants" through a quiz and discussion of the setting, learners are introduced to the final...

A useful resource to use as a check for basic understanding or completion of reading, this quiz tests readers' ability to recall plot information but does not require any critical or analytical reading skills. As with all Fun Trivia...

For this identifying all forms of nouns online/interactive worksheet, students read a paragraph from Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and identify all the nouns in the sentences. Students click on the nouns...

Bring this lesson on hubris to your short story unit. After reading Jack London's "To Build a Fire," young readers discuss the role of hubris in the protagonist's death. The lesson has connections to other short stories, such as "The...

In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. Students may check some of their answers online.

Students, in pairs, go on a literary scavenger hunt using the Internet to find information.

In this knowledge activity, students choose the correct word to complete the sentences about Elvis Presley, Thanksgiving, London, and more. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.

For this various words and phrases worksheet, students complete the sentences with various words and phrases. Students fill in the blanks for 10 sentences total.

Ernest Hemingway

A look at the literature and movies written and produced in the Jazz Age. See how the writers of the age reflected the consumer society and the emptiness of middle class. Movies appealed to mass culture and millions went to the movies...